Ms. Usha Seethalakshmi and Dr. Rukmini Rao gave a memorandum to Ms. Seethakka, minister for Women and child development on 16th July with recommendations for formulating guidelines for agriculture investment support to farmers in Telangana. The memorandum included the following demands for women farmers:
- The revenue department needs to be directed to pro-actively initiate measures to address applications for mutations at the earliest and also specially sensitized to enable mutations in favour of women.
- Mutation of agricultural land for availing Rythu Bharosa should be accompanied by a policy announcement from the Government such as 50% waiver of stamp duty and registration fee if registered in the name of woman (on the lines of such policies prevalent in several other states), it would certainly incentivize land transfers and mutation in favour of women across the state.
- Farmers cultivating on forest lands and holding valid pattas under the Forest Rights Act, 2006 must also be given Rythu Bharosa benefits. But more importantly, women holding such FRA pattas either individually (as single women) or jointly along with their spouses must also be given priority for extending Rythu Bharosa benefits
